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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 17, 1960
Page
2
The Travel and Publicity branch of the province announces a bright brochure on where to fish and hunt in Manitoba. Also released are well illustrated maps of Whiteshell Forest Reserve and the northland. Available from the province’s tourist information centre.
A compact guide for the box camera user explains the five step method to craft a clear picture story, from defining the idea to choosing a location and distance, plus common errors like under exposure and camera shake with tips to avoid them.
Saskatchewan waters host native fish such as pike pickerel whitefish lake trout Arctic grayling and cisco. Among thriving introductions are brook brown and rainbow trout, expanding regional biodiversity and angling options.
The lake covers 9,230 square miles making it larger than Lake Ontario and nearly as big as Lake Erie, highlighting its impressive scale among the Great Lakes region.
An agricultural note states that among over 4,000 European cultivated flower species only about 400 possess an agreeable perfume, highlighting the rarity of fragrance among cultivated blooms.
Paul Klitch unearthed a pumpkin from his cellar in Humboldt Saskatchewan that had sprouts growing from its center. He brought the specimen to The Journal as proof, noting many sprouts at the core while the pumpkin had been stored in a cardboard box since last fall.
A vintage ad offers five numbered kitchen patterns to enclose an old sink or build in a new unit. Includes floor and wall cabinet designs, scalloped cornices and brackets. Each pattern is 50 cents, or all five for one dollar. Flame Workshop Patterns, Department PL 4483, West Sth Avenue, Vancouver B.C.
Pattern 7489 offers a dream-come-tree Afghan or TV pillow in seven flower motifs. Crochet mainly single crochet using wool scraps in four colors with a large hook. Send name address and pattern number to Dousenow Arts Department, 60 Front Street W. borento, for acceptance and stamping.
Ace Brooke offers a simple velvet veil cap pattern 7028 with velvet bows roses and daisies for spring. Easy to make and budget friendly, the guide invites readers to mail thirty five cents and provide name address and pattern number to Household Arts Department in Toronto.
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